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Literacy for Sustainable Development in the Age of Information

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    9781853594328

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    1853594326

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-01-13
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters

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Author Biography

Professor Naz Rassool teaches in the Institute of Education at the University of Reading. She has published widely within the fields of the political economy of language in education; literacy and development and language relations within the global cultural economy, New Managerialism in education, and the sociology of technology in education. She is the author of Literacy for Sustainable Development in the Age of Information (1999), co-author, with Louise Morley, of School Effectiveness: Fracturing the Discourse (1999) and co-editor with Kevin Brehony, of Nationalisms Old and New (1999). She is also co-editor of the international journal Pedagogy, Culture and Society.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: What is Literacy?p. 1
Theoretical Frameworks
Literacy: In Search of a Paradigmp. 25
Literacy and Development Issues
Literacy and the Nation-Statep. 59
Literacy and Social Developmentp. 77
The Role of Mass Literacy Campaigns in Social Development: Some Lessons from the Pastp. 98
Globalisation: The Implications of Technological Development, Social and Cultural Change for Concepts and Definitions of Literacy
Technological and Cultural Transformationsp. 129
Changing Definitions of 'Text' within the Information Societyp. 155
Conceptualising Literacy, Knowledge and Power in the Information Societyp. 184
Towards a 'Communicative Competence' for Democratic Participation in the Information Societyp. 215
Bibliographyp. 242
Indexp. 259
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